Quit & Restart Clean R Session from within R (Example)
In this tutorial, I’ll illustrate how to close and restart a new R programming session from within RStudio in the R programming language.
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Example: Restart R Session Using .rs.restartR Function
The following R programming code explains how to quit and restart R in an automatized way by applying the .rs.restartR command. Have a look at the following R syntax:
.rs.restartR() # Restart R session
After running the previous line of code, something like the following should appear in your RStudio console:
# Restarting R session... # # Microsoft R Open 3.5.3 # The enhanced R distribution from Microsoft # Microsoft packages Copyright (C) 2019 Microsoft Corporation # # Using the Intel MKL for parallel mathematical computing (using 4 cores). # # Default CRAN mirror snapshot taken on 2019-04-15. # See: https://mran.microsoft.com/.
Note that your environment will keep all data objects and add-on packages are still attached at this point.
Video & Further Resources
Do you want to learn more about restarting R automatically? Then I can recommend to have a look at the following video that I have published on my YouTube channel. I’m showing the R programming code of this article in the video.
The YouTube video will be added soon.
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